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The nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment is designed to use a time projection chamber and 5000 kg of isotopically enriched liquid xenon to search for the decay in $^{136}$Xe. Progress in the detector design, paired with higher…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-24 nEXO Collaboration , G. Adhikari , S. Al Kharusi , E. Angelico , G. Anton , I. J. Arnquist , I. Badhrees , J. Bane , V. Belov , E. P. Bernard , T. Bhatta , A. Bolotnikov , P. A. Breur , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Cao , C. Chambers , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , R. Collister , S. A. Czyz , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , R. DeVoe , M. L. Di Vacri , J. Dilling , Y. Y. Ding , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , M. Elbeltagi , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Ferrara , S. Feyzbakhsh , Y. S. Fu , G. Gallina , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , W. Gillis C. Gingras , D. Goeldi , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , C. A. Hardy , K. Harouaka , M. Heffner , E. W. Hoppe , A. House , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , M. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , I. Kotov , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , M. Mahtab , P. Martel-Dion , J. Masbou , N. Massacret , T. McElroy , K. McMichael , M. Medina Peregrina , T. Michel , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , J. Nattress , C. R. Natzke , R. J. Newby , K. Ni , F. Nolet , O. Nusair , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , K. Odgers , A. Odian , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , C. T. Overman , S. Parent , A. Perna , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , J-F. Pratte , N. Priel , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , G. J. Ramonnye , T. Rao , H. Rasiwala , S. Rescia , F. Retière , J. Ringuette , V. Riot , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , N. Roy , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , X. Shang , A. K. Soma , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , M. Tarka , S. Thibado , A. Tidball , J. Todd , T. Totev , S. Triambak , R. H. M. Tsang , T. Tsang , F. Vachon , V. Veeraraghavan , S. Viel , C. Vivo-Vilches , P. Vogel , J-L. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , T. Wager , M. Walent , K. Wamba , Q. Wang , W. Wei , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , S. Wilde , M. Worcester , S. X. Wu , W. H. Wu , X. Wu , Q. Xia , W. Yan , H. Yang , L. Yang , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , T. Ziegler

The possibility to probe new physics scenarios of light Majorana neutrino exchange and right-handed currents at the planned next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiment SuperNEMO is discussed. Its ability to study different…

Double-beta decays of $^{100}$Mo from the 6.0195-year exposure of a 6.914 kg high-purity sample were recorded by the NEMO-3 experiment that searched for neutrinoless double-beta decays. These ultra-rare transitions to $^{100}$Ru have a…

SNO+ is a large multipurpose neutrino detector situated 2km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the structure of the SNO experiment with numerous infrastructure upgrades and with heavy water replaced by ultra-pure liquid…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-03 Josephine Paton

The NEMO project aims at the search, development and validation of key technologies for the construction, deployment and mantainance of an underwater Cherenkov km3 neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, the NEMO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piera Sapienza

Latest results on $0\nu\beta\beta$, $0\nu\chi^0\beta\beta$ and $2\nu\beta\beta$ decays of different isotopes from NEMO-3 double beta decay experiment are presented. In particular, new limits at 90% C.L. on neurtinoless double beta decay of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Barabash

The NEMO-3 experiment measured the half-life of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay and searched for the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd. Using $410$ g of $^{116}$Cd installed in the detector with an exposure of $5.26$ y, ($4968\pm74$) events…

In some models beyond the Standard Model where lepton number violation by two units is forbidden (implying neutrinos cannot be Majorana fermions), violation by four units can still occur, allowing neutrinoless quadruple beta decay. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-04-03 Pawel Guzowski

The NEMO-3 experiment at the Modane Underground Laboratory has investigated the double-$\beta$ decay of $^{48}{\rm Ca}$. Using $5.25$ yr of data recorded with a $6.99\,{\rm g}$ sample of $^{48}{\rm Ca}$, approximately $150$ double-$\beta$…

The NEXT-100 time projection chamber, currently under construction, will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (bb0nu) using 100-150 kg of high-pressure xenon gas enriched in the Xe-136 isotope to ~91%. The detector possesses two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Martin-Albo , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas

We report the results of a first experimental search for lepton number violation by four units in the neutrinoless quadruple-$\beta$ decay of $^{150}$Nd using a total exposure of $0.19$ kg$\cdot$y recorded with the NEMO-3 detector at the…

The NEMO-3 results for the double-$\beta$ decay of $^{150}$Nd to the 0$^+_1$ and 2$^+_1$ excited states of $^{150}$Sm are reported. The data recorded during 5.25 yr with 36.6 g of the isotope $^{150}$Nd are used in the analysis. For the…

The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) searches for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe-136 using high-pressure xenon gas TPCs with electroluminescent amplification. A scaled-up version of this technology with about 1 tonne of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-23 NEXT Collaboration , C. Adams , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , C. D. R Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , N. Byrnes , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , E. Church , C. A. N. Conde , T. Contreras , A. A. Denisenko , G. Díaz , J. Díaz , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , F. Foss , E. D. C. Freitas , Z. Freixa , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , R. González , D. González-Díaz , S. Gosh , R. Guenette , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. Haefner , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero , V. Herrero , J. Ho , Y. Ifergan , B. J. P. Jones , M. Kekic , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , N. López-March , M. Losada , R. D. P. Mano , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , M. Martínez-Vara , G. Martínez-Lema , A. D. McDonald , Z. E. Meziani , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , C. Newhouse , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , E. Oblak , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J. Pérez , M. Querol , A. Redwine , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , I. Rivilla , Y. Rodríguez García , J. Rodríguez , C. Rogero , L. Rogers , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , M. Sorel , C. Stanford , J. M. R. Teixeira , P. Thapa , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , A. Usón , J. F. C. A. Veloso , T. T. Vuong , R. Webb , R. Weiss-Babai , J. T. White , K. Woodruff , N. Yahlali

SNO+ will search for neutrinoless double beta decay by loading 780 tonnes of linear alkylbenzene liquid scintillator with O(tonne) of neodymium. Using natural Nd at 0.1% loading will provide 43.7 kg of 150Nd given its 5.6% abundance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Hartnell

Probing neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the primary goals for SNO+, SNOLAB's multi-purpose neutrino detector. In order to achieve this goal the SNO detector has been adapted so that it can be filled with Te-loaded liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-04 Evelina Arushanova , Ashley R. Back

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a lepton number violating process whose observation would also establish that neutrinos are their own anti-particles. There are many experimental efforts with a variety of techniques. Some (EXO,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Schwingenheuer

The present status of double beta decay experiments are reviewed. The results of the most sensitive experiments, NEMO-3 and CUORICINO, are discussed. Proposals for future double beta decay experiments are considered. In these experiments…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 A. S. Barabash

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is an experimental program whose goals are to discover neutrinoless double beta decay using $^{136}$Xe in high pressure xenon TPCs with electroluminescent readout. In this paper, results from the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-06 J. J. Gomez-Cadenas

We report the results of a search for the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo, using the NEMO-3 detector to reconstruct the full topology of the final state events. With an exposure of 34.7 kg.y, no evidence…